The Devil and Tom Walker

author who wrote the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker", was one of many to go completely against this trend in the United States during the 18th century. He helped to introduce American Romanticism to the masses, a bold move considering that the general public still idolized Puritanical or Classicist writings. The freedom to create any story imaginable helped fuel authors to completely overhaul novels, poems, and short stories, and "The Devil and Tom Walker" is a classic representation of…

The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving teaches a very big important lesson, just like the short story The Phoenix by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The Devil and Tom Walker is also a short story, it was written in 1824 and The Phoenix was written in the year of 1940. When i was reading the stories i noticed that both stories shared the same theme. The story of Devil and Tom Walker is about a guy named Tom and his deal with the devil he was pressured into accepting this deal by his wife because…

The Devil and Tom Walker is a short story that teaches the readers a valuable lesson. The lesson learned, or moral, that Washington Irving is trying to portray in this story is that greed leads you down the wrong path and self-destruction. Tom Walker and his wife had an unhappy marriage. Tom was known as a miser, his wife would hide food from him, and she is described as "fierce of temper," "loud of tongue," and "strong of arm." He was eager to go into the woods to escape from their bitter…

represent particular human traits, like purity, greed, or heroism. In the story “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, Mr. Irving writes a story about a greedy elderly man who encounters a Devil and makes a deal…

“Tom was a hard-minded fellow, not easily daunted, and he had lived so long with a termagant wife, that he did not even fear the devil.” The Devil and Tom Walker takes place a few miles from Boston, Massachusetts, inland from the Charles Bay. The short story was written in 1824, by Washington Irving. Tom Walker is the protagonist of the story, one day he takes a shortcut home, he goes through the forest which is also a swamp and meets the devil known as “Old Scratch.” Tom sells his soul to Old…

can be compared to the three stories “The Devil and Tom Walker”, “The Black Cat”, and “Feather Pillow” by using of elements through the description of The Supernatural, Violence, and Nightmares. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving uses the Gothic elements of the supernatural and the paranormal, it can be compared to the book Peregrine’s home for peculiar children. “But had been so much accustomed to witches and goblins and tricks of the Devil, in all kinds of shapes from the…

In the tall tales "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benet and "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irvine the authors use the devil as an archetype but both use it in different ways. I believe the authors use this archetype as a means to support the main character and teach us lessons we shouldn't forget. Without this archetype there would be no story or the story would turn out differently. The archetype contributes to the main characters lives and changes them completely.…

The devils trickery of getting one to sell his soul is a farce that’s as old as time. Sure Tom Walker struts around like everything is fine and dandy but at the end of the day, he loses everything. People are always tempted to summon the devil for their own selfish ways. Foremost, Washington Irving, The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom was driving to commit his fate-less act by greed. For example, Tom shows his eagerness to deal with the devil when the devil tells him to open a broker’s…

Romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.As a part of this assignment I have been charged with reading three selections of this time period relating to this movement.From reading the selections I really got to better understand the romantic movement .The writing of that was truly trying to convey the writer or main character’s extreme emotion that was felt during his/her…

Tom Walker addresses a typical setting and theme of American Romanticism. As the young nation matured, the woods became symbolic of individualism, passionate self-discovery that moved past the book learning of now crowded cities. The woods changed from a threatening place of danger to life, limb and soul (just ask the folks in Salem). Man was left in the woods surrounded by nature to investigate his own being and moral makeup. Here Tom Walker faces his insatiable greed and does not learn his…